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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) "IN THE COURT OF THE FOUNTAIN THE SUN of March shone through young leaves of ash and elm, and water leapt and fell through shadow..." (more)
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DARKNESS THREATENS to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged -- powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. She lives in Portland, Oregon. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Becoming Whole, Jui 1 2001
Par James D. DeWitt "Alaska Fan" (Fairbanks, AK United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Ce commentaire est de: The Farthest Shore (Paperback)
LeGuin's third book in her Earthsea series is her most ambitious. Her thesis: you can only become whole by facing and accepting death, the darkest shadow. Lifted straight from Jungian psychology, this is the hardest and the important part of being whole. Sparrowhawk knows most of this truth already: remember the climax to Wizard of Earthsea. Arren, the young prince who accompanies Sparrowhawk on the epic voyages of this third book, has not yet learned this harsh lesson.

You don't need to know anything about Carl Jung to read and enjoy this book. At one level, this is a children's tale. But this book has many levels. Consider: the last king, Maharrion, had prophesied that there would be no king to succeed him until one appeared who had crossed the farthest shore. I'm not giving anything away by telling you that the farthest shore is physical - the western shore of the westernmost isle of Earthsea and metaphysical - death. And readers of earlier books know that for the wizards of Earthasea, there is a low stone fence that separates the living from the dead.

There is another wizard - humiliated by a younger Sparrowhawk - who has both great power and a terror of death. And he has worked a spell that will devastate the world, by denying and avoiding death. But by denying death, he has denied life, and magic, song, joy, reason and even life are draining out of the world. That spell must be undone before it is too late. And that task falls to Sparowhawk and Arren.

Arren must learn to understand and accept that death is necessary. Not just in the abstract but personally. He must cross that low stonewall with no hope of returning. He must cross the final shore.

This story has dragons, despair, joy, loss, discovery and marvelous surprises. Like all of the Earthsea books, it is sparely but beautifully told. The deepest of the first three books, it is an absolute joy. And for a thoughtful, reflecting reader, it might be even more. This is a book that can change a reader's life.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Earthsea is always great, Nov. 27 2008
Par Steven R. McEvoy "MCWPP" (Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Ce commentaire est de: The Farthest Shore (Paperback)
I read most of the Earthsea Cycle as part of a childrens literature course I did back in 1999. This is another book about Ged. But in this one he is the special educator to Lebanner/ Arren.

It is a book about the big questions, such as life and death, and the search for who we are. It is also about what we are to be and the idea of predestination. Ged says to seek to be ones self is rare. It is also that we seek what we dont know in order to be found by our destiny.

In the book darkness is overtaking the world, singers are losing their songs, mages are forgetting their crafts. Men doubt and society is decaying, all because of fear or death. Men are giving up their true names to a lie. They are becoming slaves to a dead master.

Key Notes:
Ged is Master of Roke  Archmage
Lookfar (Ship is back again)
Isles of Myths
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Fantasy Classic, Nov. 19 2007
Par Leah MacFarlane (Vancouver, BC) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Ce commentaire est de: The Farthest Shore (Hardcover)
This is a classic read in the fantasy genre, one that any fan of books by Tolkien should be sure to check out. LeGuin uses a succinct and crisp writing style to bring the world of Earthsea into being. Not to be missed.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 The Child and the Shadow
Whilst I read A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA and THE TOMBS OF ATUAN many times as a child and a teenager, I never read THE FARTHEST SHORE, though I suspect I began it and did not finish... Lisez davantage
Publié le Janv. 8 2004 par leda_au

4.0étoiles sur 5 Heavy-duty, serious fantasy. Not for the light-hearted.
In the third entry to the Earthsea series, Ged is now Arch-Mage, and is faced with a new crisis: Magic around the world is failing. Lisez davantage
Publié le Aoû 14 2003 par Godly Gadfly

5.0étoiles sur 5 The Battle Against Evil
Evil is prepared to end life as it is known in Earthsea. The world and its wizards are losing their magic, and it is up to Ged powerful Archmage, wizard, to seek out the only one... Lisez davantage
Publié le Janv. 9 2003 par S. K. Leggate

4.0étoiles sur 5 As good as the
Ursula Le Guin wrote this very well.It was extremely interesting ,and very absorbing .The plot is straightforward,and
the characters are wonderful . Lisez davantage
Publié le Déc 24 2002

5.0étoiles sur 5 A good introduction
to high fantasy. If you haven't read this book, go out and buy
it, either in the bookstore, through the mail, on tape, or as an
e-book. I first read it in 1986. Lisez davantage
Publié le Déc 11 2002 par Blair Colquhoun

5.0étoiles sur 5 she does it again
This is yet another awesome story in the Earthsea series. The world is losing all of its magic. Ged, the powerful Archmage, and a young Prince set out to find out why. Lisez davantage
Publié le Sep 22 2002 par yankeemb7

5.0étoiles sur 5 regarding the first chapter.
This book is just as good as the rest of the series, but "The Farthest Shore" stands out for one reason: the first chapter is probably the most beautiful piece of literature ever... Lisez davantage
Publié le Aoû 20 2002 par bluebirdxx

4.0étoiles sur 5 Unsatisfying
the promise in this book is never fully realized. As usual, we only get half-glimpses of Earthsea, images of decay, of a human civilization in the throes of strange forces. Lisez davantage
Publié le Aoû 15 2002

5.0étoiles sur 5 A view from the protagonist to its sidekick.
For the first and second series of the Earthsea, you'll find in this book suddenly Sparrowhawk, the famous Earthsea wizard, is not the protagonist. Lisez davantage
Publié le Juil 30 2002 par Edward Juan

5.0étoiles sur 5 The loss of magic
This may be the best of the Earthsea books, combining subtle, evocative prose with realistic characterization and a pair of equally important, entwined plotlines. Lisez davantage
Publié le Juil 9 2002 par E. A Solinas

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